One of Dickens' masterpieces, the satirical 'Little Dorrit' exposes the injustices of the social safety net of the Victorian era, particularly debtors' prisons, where those who owed money were kept, unable to work, until they repaid their creditors.William Dorrit has been in Marshalsea debtors' prison with his family since his children were young. Though free to come and go, they have grown up there. Little Dorrit, William's devoted second daughter, supports her father and herself as a seamstress. She attracts the notice of free man Arthur Clennam, who has his own complex and mysterious history, and the fate of the Dorrit family soon begins to unfold. 'Little Dorrit' is a stunning example of how well Dickens could put his finely drawn characters and his comic genius at the service of his passion for social justice.